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I thought it was common knowledge. I don't think they ever came right out and said it back in the 70s or anything, but...I mean, here's Freddie Mercury....and the band is named Queen... If he ever officially came out, it was like Barry Manilow coming out, or Liberace: "Wow, no ####?? " I always figured the flamboyant Euro musical artists were at least switch hitters anyway - Bowie, Jagger, Elton John... It's just something that was and I don't recall any of my friends really discussing it in any meaningful way. We had gay kids in my high school in the late 70s - nobody cared.

I'd have enjoyed it more if they'd made an effort to have the actor look like Freddie Mercury. All the basics were there, just a little bit of tweaking would have done it. I couldn't get past him looking like my 7th grade science teacher.

My biggest complaint: more music, less Mary.

Even as a kid I think most of us understood just how sophisticated their music was and how set apart they were from other bands, even setting aside BoRap. I'd have liked to see their creative process explored more.

Of course, it most definitely was, but I say that looking back on it now. I probably didn't realize it until the mid-80's after Live Aid and they had such a big comeback.

Freddie had a slight overbite and gap - this movie shows him with enormous buck teeth. That the actor kept sucking on to emphasize. Ugh. Wrong.

Yeah, he did. It was annoying.

One thing about he caps or whatever they used to make those chompers - they couldn't MAKE the overbite in the same way that Freddie's was. They could only work with the exisiting jawline the way his normal bite was. The only way to make those teeth were to build them ONTO his existing teeth. His bite wasn't a good match up.